June 1, 2009

Thank you, everybody who voted at the MTV Movie Awards! It was awesome to see Twilight get so much love. Congratulations to Catherine and Rob and Kristen and all of the cast and everyone at Summit and everybody on the crew! You all did an amazing job and you deserve your popcorn!

Twilight fans are the best!

XOXO
Steph

P.S. You got to see a little taste of New Moon tonight, but I promise you this: when it comes to New Moon, you haven't seen anything yet! Can November please come faster?

{More from Seth}

Came across this article online and thought it would be something interesting to discuss.


Kristen Stewart and the Twilight Balance of Feminine and Feminist in New Moon
by Nadya Vlassoff


The first book in the Twilight Saga introduced Bella Swan to a mass audience, a young female character who navigates her way through the conflicting waters of self-awareness and change. With the arrival of the handsome and mysterious Edward Cullen, those rough young seas become even more emotionally difficult to wade through. As the saga continues, New Moon picks up where Twilight left off as we see the deeper development of Edward and Bella’s relationship. Although us Twilight fans become invested in the progression of their relationship, New Moon is rife with conflict when Bella finds herself confronting life without her man. And it’s this very conflict, both internal and external, that has some Twilight and New Moon fans voicing their opinions throughout the online Twilight community over what it may or may not say about whether women need their male counterparts for emotional stability and are dependent on men for self worth and identity.
 

April 21, 2009

There are a lot of things I should be doing updates on—for example, how awesome and successful the Book Babe event was, and how cool it was to meet all the other authors and hang out with them a little bit, and how much I appreciated all the tremendous support from the fans—but instead of commenting on happy things (which I admit I should have done a week ago; I was waiting for things to slow down for a day, silly me!), I'm commenting on ridiculous internet rumors so that my publicist's day will be just a little bit better.

I am not being sued. No one has contacted me or my publisher to inform either of us that I'm being sued. I never had a roommate named Heidi. There is no professor in the BYU English department named Dr. Peter Benton (though there is a character on ER by that name). And most of all, I began writing Twilight exactly the way I've told people in countless interviews and events for the past six years: I had a cool dream, I wrote it down, writing it down was really fun, so I kept writing until I had a whole book.

The sad thing about this silly situation is that so many legitimate news outlets reported it without doing any research at all to determine if there was any truth to the story. And at least two of these facts are really, really easy to confirm. Particularly, the one about the BYU professor. A simple on-line search can give you that information. Also, a quick call to my publisher would have cleared up the whole lawsuit story. (Kudos to the fansites who did their due diligence and debunked this rumor days ago.)

I guess the moral of the story is that—big surprise—you can't believe everything you read on the internet. Seems like it's April Fool's Day every day on-line. So no worries, the filming of New Moon continues uninterrupted. And, to end this on a bright note, the filming of New Moon continues to be awesome. It's all so beautiful! Chris Weitz is brilliant. Kristen, Rob, and Taylor are beyond words. I have gotten choked up more than once on set due to their amazing performances. I can't wait to see it all put together!

Steph

VANCOUVER - Several dozen students and fans gathered at David Thompson secondary in Vancouver Tuesday hoping a for a glimpse of the stars on the set of Twilight: New Moon.

They were not disappointed.

A few lucky Twilighters saw series author Stephenie Meyer beyond the barricades set up outside the school cafeteria where filming is taking place.

A single officer from the Vancouver Police Department is keeping the crowd in line.

The four books penned by Meyer have sold millions of copies and spawned an

army of fans worldwide.

Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella Swan, was also seen on set today. Robert

Pattinson, who plays vampire Edward Cullen, was not in evidence today

"Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."

"People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet."

January 26, 2009

[The image links to Amazon.com, but I noticed that they are almost out of stock, so here are a couple other links: The Girl Who Could Fly at Borders.com and The Girl Who Could Fly at BarnesandNoble.com]

I really liked both of these articles that came out yesterday in the USA Today:

• Sellers basked in Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' in 2008
• New star authors made, old ones rediscovered in 2008

I love stats like those. And while I'm posting I thought I would add that tonight (Thursday) the band Mutemath (contributor to the Twilight soundtrack) is going to be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno doing a live performance of "Spotlight." Just FYI.

--Seth